[Coco] SCSI tape driver for OS-9?

[Tim Fadden]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Just curious if anyone has seen a tape driver for OS-9 or any tar-like
>>>> applications for backup?  I have a Cloud-9 SCSI cartridge and would love
>>>> to use one of my older streaming tape drives for backup.
>>>>         
>>> It would have to be a really old slow drive, else the coco's streaming
>>> speed would likely 'shoe-shine' the drive to death in short order.  Even
>>> at the optimum interleave on the floppy for bru, it still took around 9
>>> minutes to write a 765k floppy with bru.  But the killer was the 33
>>> minutes it took to restore from that same floppy.  Multiply that by the
>>> approximately 90 such disks it took to backup what was on the old Maxtor
>>> 120 megger, and you can see why I only did that once.
>>>       
>> Yes, I believe you have nailed that one.  I keep forgetting how slow the
>> throughput is on these old mu-chines :-).
>>
>> I probably should link in the DriveWire driver and just copy the hard disk
>> over the wire.
>>     
>
> And I expect that would be faster if drivewire is setup to smoke.
>
>   
Took me about 6 hours for 70meg worth of data on a 105meg drive using dsave.

Tim